Chapter 10 Flashcards

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Boot partiton

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\Windows folder, OS stored

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Basic disk

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Single, independent HD

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Dynamic disk

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Software RAID enabled disk

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Extended partition

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Fourth partition, multiple volumes/logical drives

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FAU (file allocation unit)

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Group of sectors

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GUIPT

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Partitioning system for over 2TB

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High-level format

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Complete format, drive letter

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Low level format

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Factory, sector marking

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Initialization files

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Text files w/ registry data

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Logical drives

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Portion/all of HD extended partition, like a physical drive/volume

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MBR

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First sector of the HD, contains partition table

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MFT

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Newer form of FAT

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12
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Offline files

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Corrupt, unavailable files

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Pagefile.sys

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File used as virtual memory

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14
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Primary partition

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Volume

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Quick format

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Format, no error checking

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Registry

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OS software/hardware config, app settings, user preferences

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Shadow copy

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Copy of currently open file included in backup

18
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Simple volume

A

Volume on 1 HD

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Slack

A

Wasted space at end of cluster

20
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Image

A

Backup of a volume

21
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System partition

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C: contains OS, active partition

22
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System state data

A

Files for loading Os

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Track

A

Circular divisions of platter

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UDF

A

New optical disk format

25
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Namespace

A

Folder containing subfolders of user profile

26
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Virtual memory

A

Enhances RAM

27
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Wildcard

A

Characters to shorten filenames